Since the Civil War ended in the late 1800’s, many inventions and innovations started to skyrocket in production, which led to what is now called the Industrial Revolution. This revolution really made an impact on how the people of America lived. Faster transportation, like the railroads and locomotives, made it easier for settlers to move out west where a lot of the industry work started. Inventions also made a huge impact on how people lived and made their daily lives easier. Some of these inventions were electricity, the sewing machine, the telephone, and the Model T Ford.
The invention of the light bulb and telephone illuminated the homes, and allowed millions of people to connect with each other. The mass production of items allowed for greater cash flow. Things were made on demand, and by the thousands. This allowed the US to quickly pack and ship all of their goods to other cities or countries. Mass production also lowered the cost of the products.
Locomotives were an instant success everybody liked and wanted to use them, they could take people to live in towns and cities they otherwise would have never been to. Some of the positives of the introduction of the railway were things as simple as getting people to where they wanted to go faster than usual or things as unusual as people earning their money from racing trains and everything in between. They were a massive breakthrough in British technology, this is what made them that bit more exiting for the people in the 1800’s. Even though there wasn’t as much money around then as there is now there was a sudden increase in the amount of people buying houses in other towns as soon as locomotives came out, this meant more money for estate agents and landlords. There was also a lot more money in the sports industry because more people would be able to get to sport games because they could get a train.
The Way West Beginning in the early 1800’s, Americans began to look west. The start of the first railroads to the Pacific began and the path was anything but easy to navigate. The draw for expanding the railroad was not only the ability to travel faster and move goods throughout the country, but the railroad also gave people a sense of freedom to move about the lands of this vast country. With the larger populations of cities like New York and Boston building up and becoming more heavily crowded, many people were searching for a way to move outward where there was more space and more freedoms including mining, farming, and natural resources. Before the railroad, the only means of travel was by wagon, horseback, or boat.
The communication in America increased immensely due to the growth of the railways. The postal service became well organized, and was able to send out the mail on trains reducing the amount of time it took to get mail. Also since railway lines were almost everywhere in the United Sates, rural towns were able to connect with people in the city, and vise versa. News was able to travel quickly because as people traveled they brought stories and newspapers with them about what was happening in their hometown. The people were more informed of the issues of the nation; therefore they were able to communicate this to the seats of government.
Much of this investment came from already industrialized countries like Germany, Great Britain, and France whose business owners looked for new investment opportunities in the United States. These investors put money into the work of mechanics and engineers with the expertise to develop new, more efficient ways of mass-producing goods. Machines benefited the United States by allowing business owners to specialize in the production of goods and manufacture them in large quantities to distribute throughout the nation or export. As a result, the cost of mass-produced goods went down as their quantity went up causing industrial profits to rise. With the creation of transcontinental railroads and telephones, marketing nationally was available to distribute these goods.
Prior to the Titanic’s demise in 1912, American society was making steady progress in the development of technology. The country was expanding in wealth and population, with many foreigners immigrating to the states in hope of finding wealth in the nation’s blooming industrial centers. The industrialization of the country made Americans become arrogant and imperious; the designers of the RMS Titanic stated, “God himself could not sink this ship.” This egotistic attitude likely led to the Titanic devastation. Because the Titanic was thought to be the “unsinkable ship,” when the tragedy was announced to the American public, many citizens did not believe that it was true. One effect of the disaster is the new safety
These events all lead to Militarism, a better economy and foreign trade, led to countries having more money to buy weapons. Population also meant more soldiers, and steel and iron production was transported easier due to trains and steam boats. By 1914, The triple alliance had more ships, 49 more warships and 125 more submarines (resources of the Great Powers in 1914). But the Triple Entente had more man power, 599000 thousand more. Germany tried to build a much stronger navy to show its power.
How successful were the Five-Year Plans in transforming Russian industry in the years to 1941? All of the Five –Year Plans had some successes and some failures about whether they managed to transform Russian industry in the years to 1941. Some of the problems with the plans lay with the government and Stain, whereas some are affected by whether or not the workers did the right thing. The first Five-Year Plan was slightly successful in transforming Russian industry from 1928 to 1932, by increasing the yearly rate of economic growth to 14%, which was staggering considering America and Europe were in a state of economic depression. America had only just experienced the Wall Street Crash, which took place at the end of October 1929, and was making 12,000 people redundant every day, whereas in Russia, virtually no one was unemployed.
The annexation of Philippines, Guam, Hawaii, Cuba, Puerto Rico and some other small islands had a huge significance for the US navy, because they had a chance to use naval bases taken during wars from these countries to help them to put ambitions which they had into action. Thirdly, the USA asserted economic control over almost all Latin America. The reason was that because the USA produced more goods than they could use, they needed expansion of their market abroad. Moreover, the population of the USA doubled during the period of 1870-1914. The industry production reached a point of 10 billion dollars by the 1900 and Industries, such as steel, textiles,